sanguine

Meaning of sanguine

noun
  1. Blood colour; red.
  2. Anything of a blood-red colour, as cloth.
  3. A tincture, seldom used, of a blood-red colour (not to be confused with murrey).
  4. Bloodstone.
  5. Red crayon.

verb

To stain with blood; to impart the colour of blood to; to ensanguine.

adjective
  1. Having the colour of blood; blood red.
  2. Having a bodily constitution characterised by a preponderance of blood over the other bodily humours, thought to be marked by irresponsible mirth; indulgent in pleasure to the exclusion of important matters.
  3. Characterized by abundance and active circulation of blood.
    a sanguine bodily temperament
  4. Warm; ardent.
    a sanguine temper
  5. Anticipating the best; optimistic; confident; full of hope.
    I'm sanguine about the eventual success of the project.
  6. Full of blood; bloody.
  7. Bloodthirsty.

Information about sanguine

Hyphenation of sanguine

san-guine

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • sanguine is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

sanguine synonyms

Meaning rubicund:

rubicund, ruddy, florid

Meaning :

animated, assured, bright, bullish, buoyant, cheerful, cheery, confident, hopeful, optimistic, positive, red, ridibund, spirited, upbeat, vivificated

sanguine antonyms

Meaning :

despondent, blue, gloomy, pessimistic

Translation of sanguine

Anagrams of sanguine

Guineans, guanines, inganues

Words that rhyme with sanguine

Buine, viduine, Beguine, anguine, beguine, consanguine, ensanguine, exsanguine, linguine, nonsanguine, oversanguine, presanguine, supersanguine, ultrasanguine, unsanguine, Alchuine, morrhuine, murrhuine, belluine, genuine, nongenuine, ungenuine, acriquine, amodiaquine, antioquine, basquine, benzoxiquine, chloroquine, embiquine, equine, fourquine, hydroxychloroquine, iodochloroquine, mebiquine, mefloquine, mesquine, metoquine, moxipraquine, oxamniquine, pamaquine, pentaquine, plasmoquine, preterequine, primaquine, quine, rhodoquine, santoquine, totaquine, unequine, vasquine

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